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A Rigmaroll
Etching and aquatint Illustration to Egerton's 'Airy Nothings; or
scraps and noughts, and
odd-cum-shorts'; men and women dancing with hands joined in a circle,
an old man in captain's hat waving an umbrella in the centre; after M.
Egerton. 1825 Inscription Content: Lettered below image with title,
production detail: "M.E.", "Engraved by G. Hunt" and publication line:
Thomas Mc Lean, Haymarket. Height: 195 millimetres Width: 236
millimetres £55 rare only found one in BM
A great dairy-man
Scarce print published by Published by George Humphrey drawn by
by Theodore Lane . Cows and goats with distended udders are grouped
outside a small thatched cottage (see No. 13893). The King, wearing
apron, over-sleeves, and top-boots, stands by a cow, an arm resting on
her back, his pail at his feet, his stool behind him. Behind (right), a
fat dairymaid, presumably Lady Conyngham, walks towards the cottage,
her pail on her head. Three plump women watch from open casement
windows. December 1820 Etching with hand-colouring Inscription Content:
Lettered with title, and "Pubd by G.Humphrey 27 St James's Street
December 1820." Theodore Lane, a brilliant young caricaturist who died
in 1828, born in 1800 at Isleworth, in Middlesex. He was largely
self taught as an artist, although he must have received encouragement
from his father, who had been a drawing master at Worcester. At 14 he
was apprenticed to the minature painter John Barrow at Battle Bridge.
He studied watercolour portraits and miniatures, exhibiting at the
Royal Academy from 1819.Seriously rare one in BM on rag paper came from
large ex Gallery uncoloured with the Sayers and others
£165 inc
James Sayers (or Sayer) (1748 - April 20, 1823) was an English
caricaturist. He was born at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of a
merchant captain. He began as clerk in an attorney's office, and was
for a time a member of the borough council. In 1780 his father's death
provided him with a small fortune, and he went to London.. James
Sayers's first
published etchings date from the early 1780's and are strong attacks
upon the political powers of the day, most notably Charles James Fox,
Lord North and their followers. Fox, in fact, once stated that the
etchings of James Sayers did him, "more mischief than the debates in
Parliament or the works of the Press."
Charles James Fox ('Gladiator pugnans')
Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey published 17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary
£110 inc delivery. . from a folio
Brissot's visit to his friend Lord Leveller'
Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey published 17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen
annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary £110 inc
delivery. . from a folio Jean-Pierre (Jacques-Pierre)
Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), French revolutionary and political
writer. James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839), Statesman;
author
of 'Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth'.
'Citizen Bardolph refused admittance at Prince Hal's' (Samuel McDonald;
Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey published
17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen
annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary £110 inc
delivery. . from a folio Samuel McDonald (circa 1762-1802),
'Big Sam'; porter at Carlton House and sergeant. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan (1751-1816), Dramatist and parliamentary
orator.
Charles James Fox ('Frontispiece')
Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey published 17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen
annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary £110 inc
delivery. . from a folio Charles James Fox (1749-1806), Whig
statesman. Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope ('Citizen [Don]
Quixotte becomes
the champion of French principles')
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753-1816), Politician and
scientist. Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey
published 17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen
annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary £110 inc
delivery. . from a folio
King George III ('A peep over the garden wall in Berkeley Square')
Etching by James Sayers, published by Hannah Humphrey published 17
March 1794 Image size 303 mm x 238 mm Untinted with
pencil/old pen
annotations to base of plate mark . . .look contemporary £110 inc
delivery. . from a folio King George III (1738-1820),
Reigned 1760-1820.
Inconvenients du
voyage de st Cloud par terre
Postal Caricature showng the postie on horeback attributed in the only
other copy I can faind to Neel who wrote an early travel treatise in
1753. Initiatled to the base line with n.l. simple line etching with
later but early colour. Light overall toning to cream from white ,
mounted rare £150 inc delivery
The Midshipman's Birth / Berth
Published by I. W. Laird, 1, Leadenhall Stt. 1841. Image 29.5 x 45.5 cm
hand coloured mezzotintssome age toning and staining to the legend
below.The setting below deck shows the off-duty activities of young
midshipmen and other men in their mess cramped between decks. At
present framed ( modern) in a wash lined mount £160 inc delivery
British Soldiers Drowning Care.
Published 20th Novr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle No. 53 Fleet Street
London.Mezzotint, image 250 x 290mm. Trimmed at bottom, losing the text
of a song. The verse accompanying the image reads:
How stands the glass around,
For shame, you take no care, my boys,
How stands the glass around!
Let wine and mirth abound,
The trumphets sound,
The colours they are flying boys,
To fight, kill, or wound;
May we be found
Content with our hard fate, my boys,
On the cold ground.
Why, soldiers, why,
Should we be melancholy, boys!
Why, soldiers, why,
Whose business is to die!
What fighting! Fie!
Hang care, drink round, be merry, boy,
Tis he, you, or I, Cold, hot, wet, or dry,
We're always bound to follow, boys,
And scorn to fly. It is but in vain,
I mean not to upbraid you, boys,
It is but in vain,
For soldiers to complain;
The next campaign,
All in the field of battle, boys,
Perhaps we may be slain,
But should we remain,
A bottle and kind landlady
Cures all our pain.
Social satire; officers in a tent around a table drink red wine, or
punch from a bowl, smoke pipes and sing; one has his arm in a sling,
another waves his hat, in the background are mounted soldiers and the
British flag, and on the floor is a cannon and shot. £135.00 Old
colour old frame looks all original light loose joint bottom left add
glue or tack !
Fopp/ Dandy with a hurdy Gurdy and empty pockets begging for money. . .
. hedge funders of 1790s?
,Woodward del Cruikshank sculp . Etching with hand
colouring London Pubd: by Allen & West 15 Paternoster Row, October
8, 1796 saac Cruikshank [English Illustrator, ca.1756-1811] ; George
Moutard WOODWARD (c.1760-1809)An amateur watercolourist and
caricaturist, George Moutard Woodward arrived in London in 1792. From
around 1794 to 1807 he drew numerous caricaturesmainly engraved by
Isaac Cruikshank. Many designs were also etched by his friend
anddrinking companion, Thomas Rowlandson. Known as 'Mustard George',
Woodward was the designer of "General Discontent" and is often credited
with the invention of the modern comic strip. His style of life won in
the end and 'Mustard George' died in a London tavern in 1809..
£120 scarce mounted etc incl
.Holding a Candle to The Devil
By Sharpshooter . . published by J Chappell, Royal Exchange April 2
1828 . A rare caricature Unusually full page superb full margins no
defects other than slight browning to the page edges . This is a
quotation from an early English Proverb 'It's good sometimes to hold a
candle to the Devil'.. . . . . .Holding a candle to the devil is
assisting in a bad cause, an evil matter. A. Sharpshooter like some
other cartoonists of the period, disguising his real name! Actually
John Phillips pseudonym A.Sharpshooter £180 inc
THE KING'S EVIL
ANONYMOUS. The Kings Evil. A Recipe. (S.W. Fores.) 1786, 28
Sept.Engraving; . Image . 9¾" x 7¾". £135
The Prince of Wales stands, arms folded,
with Mrs Fitzherbert sitting behind him, her legs immodestly visible
beneath the table. Two pistols point at the Prince's head: 'A Recipe'.
On the Prince's marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert.framed and glazed inc
A Cheltenham Exquisite in Full Dress
Portrait of Mr Mackay ( anon ) 32
x 22 cm image with older hand colour .Mounted etc Published 1819 by
N.Chazer & Co Lithog of 33 Fleet Street, London. rare item one of a
pair with The Cheltenham Dandy £75 surface abrasion to shoulder
paper creasing smaller borders, blob in sky area
How ar'ye for Fish! . .. a soal . . whiting. .
haddock ..skait. .a.. . a
Drawn by M.E. published by Thomas
Mclean at 33 haymarket , London . With older hand colour .Mounted etc c
1828.Gentleman reading a menu in a tavern £115. This is not
available in the BM archives and as an advert for Charles Wrights
Champagne is included upon the back wall it may have been specially
commissioned as an advertisement.
Trepanning
with older hand colour .Mounted
etc Published by G.Humphrey, 27 St James Street, June 1821 £85
Holloo-Thom-ass-there's two Tea's anda brandu and
a worter a bolting over the palings
Drawn by M.E. puclished by
Thomas Mclean at 26 haymarket , London . With older hand colour
.Mounted etc c 1828.Cut to image and mounted separately as the title
and image behind the mount ( sneakily done) £55 still rare
McLean's Monthly sheet of Caricatures No 26
published by Thomas Mclean at 33
haymarket , London . With older hand colour .Mounted etc c
1833.£45
Symptoms of a View on Bagshot Heath
by Henry Alken from "Symptoms of
Being amused" 1822 to 1827 published by Thomas Mclean at 33 haymarket ,
London . With older hand colour .Mounted etc c £45
